WEBVTT - Twitter hopes you'll pay to see certain Tweets 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:13.520 You can now pay to follow people on Twitter. Microsoft 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:17.600 gives us a launch date for Windows eleven. Apple's digital 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:21.400 Driver's license lands in two states, with more to come. 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.720 Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.520 Damiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:30.840 I talk about the tech stuff I think you should 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.800 know about. It's also the place where I answer the 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:38.040 questions you send me. My name, once again is Rich Dmiro, 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.360 tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. I 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.360 hope you are having a fantastic day, although as I 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:49.200 record this, it's one of the earlier, earlier times right now, 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.320 but I'm having a good day. It is. It's always, 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:54.520 you know, it's always fun. I really look forward to 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:58.120 the podcast because I feel like it's a real dedicated 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:02.279 group of listeners that I really like to hear, kind 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.600 of the extended version of the things that I talk 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.240 about on TV or on my tweets or on my 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:11.000 Facebook page. And so it was fun. Last week I 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.199 was in Las Vegas, so I'm sure you heard a little. 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.520 The show sounded just a little different. I thought it 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.399 sounded okay. I listened to some of it just to 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.360 hear how it sounded. I thought it was good. I 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.280 was in Las Vegas for two things, the fifty thousand 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:27.360 dollars folding House, which got a lot of play on TV. 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.920 People loved it on the web. So many questions, so 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:31.880 many questions. I didn't have the answers any of the questions. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:33.880 People are asking me about plumbing, and people are asking 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.840 me about foundations, and I don't know all. All I 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:38.479 know is I want one of those in my backyard. 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.240 I would love to have an ADU like that in 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:45.520 my backyard. It's this fifty thousand dollars foldable house, basically 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:49.360 their twist on modular homes. And I think I mentioned 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:53.200 this last week is that they make it eight feet across, 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.680 which doesn't require any special wide load signs or trucks 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.920 when you're bringing it down the highway, and so once 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.080 they get it on site, they unfold it it becomes 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.560 this great little casita. So I really really really want 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.600 one of those, but I'm sure I'm one of one 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.080 hundred thousand other people that want it as well. I 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.880 was also in Vegas for the Flyover Ride, which we 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:18.600 aired on KTLA today, and it's this ride that's basically 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:22.240 like Disney's California Soarin or the old Back to the 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.760 Future ride if you're of a certain age at Universal 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.440 Now it's called the Simpsons Ride, but it's the same thing. 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.079 You sit in these chairs and they kind of move 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.160 in front of this big giant screen in front of you. 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:34.200 This one in Vegas is a little bit more modern 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:38.080 because it was recorded in eight K and it was 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.400 also you know, it has like six axes of movement 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:45.080 instead of just two that the traditional rides have. I 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:46.760 thought it was great. I thought it was very exciting. 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:48.840 My wife and kids watched the story today, They're like, 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:50.960 we need to go there. We need to go and 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.480 go on that ride. And so I never wanted to 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:56.680 bring my kids to Vegas, honestly, Like it was just 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.320 one of those things where like, I don't bring my 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.080 kids to Vegas. You know, it's an adult place. And 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.400 now as they get older and my kids get older, 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:04.839 and I'm kind of I mean, they're not that old, 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.360 but you know, as I need to find things to 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.160 do with them, I'm like, we could find some stuff 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.359 to do with the kids in Vegas. And so there 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:13.840 are a lot of things you can do there. I 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.400 mean there's like I looked up I've been keeping a 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.600 list of like all the different things that kids can 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.560 do in Las Vegas. You know, I keep away the 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.280 gambling and all the other little cards that they hand 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:25.799 out on the streets, if you know what I mean. 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:30.520 But there's like a Neon museum. They would love Circus Circus, 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.399 even though I wouldn't typically go there, but they would 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.200 love this flyover ride. They would love the aquarium at 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.400 the at the Mandalai Bay, they would love the pool 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.640 at the Mandalai Bay. Just seeing the sites would be 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.320 really fun. So there's definitely a lot. We'll plan a 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.200 trip at one of these points. I don't think right 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.040 now is the time, but maybe once we get through 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.240 a little bit of this situation that's happening in the world, 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.480 we can go. Also, if you watch me on KTLA, 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.880 new studio made its debut, which was really cool. They've 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.480 been working on this studio that I used to use, 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.839 same room, but they kind of they brought it down 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:08.920 to the beams and then built a brand new studio. 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.720 That's really cool because I mean, I love these people 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:13.560 that know how to do this stuff because I don't. 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:15.280 But they made it so that there's like a bunch 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.640 of different angles and it looks so much better on TV, 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:19.720 and like, I can shoot my stories in there, and 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.640 it's just really really cool. So I'm excited for that, 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:26.040 and I'm excited about our first story from Twitter. Uh. 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:30.880 They introduced a feature this week called super Follows. The 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.080 name of the game with all these social media networks 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.159 right now is like, are you gonna pay me? It's 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.880 like show me the money? Remember that movie back in 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.839 the day, Jerry Maguire, Show Me the Money. So we've 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.200 been doing and I say we as like, you know, 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.080 I'm in with all the creators out there, but you know, 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.400 creators have been putting out content on these various social 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:54.200 media I networks like Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.919 what's the other one, TikTok and YouTube and some of 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.360 them pay, some of them don't. But the reality is 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.040 people want to make money if you're if you're building 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.000 a living on these various social media sites. And I 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.039 think that a lot of them have come up with 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.800 some pretty unique ways. I don't think it's there just yet, 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.680 because well let me talk about this real quick. The 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.240 super Follows. So what it is is, it's basically, if 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.960 I'm a creator on Twitter, I can charge you either 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.400 three dollars, four dollars or ten dollars a month to 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.960 follow me and get my exclusive content, so I can 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.400 do exclusive tweets, I can do, you know, whatever whatever 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.000 I want to do, I can do behind the scenes, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.560 you know, early previews, subscriber only conversations. So like if 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.760 you're a subscriber to me and I have like a tweet, 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.880 I would look through the replies and you know pick, 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.599 I guess respond to the people that are my super 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:49.520 followers because they get that extra little thing. So will 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.200 this work? I don't know. I mean, I think that three, four, 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.720 ten dollars is not that much, but it is when 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.880 you add it up to everything else. I mean ten dollars. 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.920 I mean you're talking that's Netflix level. Now. I think 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.920 some of this may be in response to sort of 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.400 what OnlyFans is doing, and I think, I mean, I 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.279 don't know what the rules are on Twitter when it 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.520 comes to material like that, but I feel like this 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.600 could be part of that business, you know, where if 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.960 you're a someone who's you know, might go to only fans. 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.120 Now you have this on Twitter. It's just a little 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.760 bit easier. It's a broader platform. It's simpler. You can 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:31.000 have regular followers and super followers. So it's interesting. Now 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.480 this adds to the Twitter's other features called tip Jar, 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.080 which lets you just tip anyone on Twitter if they 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.440 were able to sign up for that, and then ticketed spaces, 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:42.479 which is kind of like what I'm doing on Facebook 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:46.120 right now, which is my podcast Live, but I would 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:50.200 charge people to listen to that, which you know, again, 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:51.960 I talk about this in my podcast all the time. 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.760 I am employed by a TV station and so that 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.040 is where I make my living, and so all this 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.120 other stuff I do, when it comes to my podcast 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.000 and my YouTube and my Facebook and my Instagram, it's 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.240 not really a big it's not a big charge for 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:11.120 me to like monetize those platforms because my living is 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:15.320 made on TV and through a regular job. So it's 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.480 more of just kind of accenting all that stuff, I guess, 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.320 complementing all of the things that I do on TV, 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:23.320 like by tweeting and by doing all this stuff. So 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.480 but I think this is really cool. I think it's 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:29.200 really neat that that creative people have a way to 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.880 monetize what they're doing. I mean, can you imagine if 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.080 you had a million followers on Twitter, and you could 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.320 charge three dollars to your most dedicated followers, whoever wants 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.240 to do that. And now let's say you get one 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.840 hundred thousand of them. Well, let's say you just get 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.160 ten thousand of them out of a million. That's thirty 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.080 thousand dollars a month. I mean, that's a pretty good 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:53.040 living for just tweeting. So they're starting with four people. 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:59.120 A makeup artist, a let's see as someone who's like 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.800 a comedian I gues, a sports guy, and an astrologist. 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.840 So those are the four people you can also apply 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:10.600 to be to offer up a super follow subscription, it's 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.400 a wait list, which means aka, good luck. You have 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.440 to have ten thousand or more followers, be at least 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.880 eighteen years old, and have tweeted twenty five times in 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.920 the last thirty days in the US. And if you 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.240 want to subscribe to someone, you can go to their 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.000 profile and there's like a little subscribe button that you 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:31.400 can press. So this is only available on iOS right 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.640 now and Android and Twitter are coming soon. Twitter dot 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.840 Com and Twitter says, don't worry, public tweets are not 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:45.520 going anywhere all right, Let's get to the first question 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:49.280 of the day, Shelley says, I've been using unroll me 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.880 for getting rid of unwanted emails. It is just not 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.040 kept up like it had any suggestions for another app 0:08:55.080 --> 0:09:00.160 to help clear those unwanted spam email, preferably free TiO a, 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.160 which it took me a minute to realize that means 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.560 thanks in advance, Shelley sent for my iPad. So, Shelley, 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.920 unroll me. UH was kind of the de facto standard 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:14.280 when it comes to unwanted emails. And they were purchased 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.920 by I don't know how you say this, but it's Raccotin. 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.560 It's an intelligence company, and so what they're doing is 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:26.680 they're doing a service for you where they are scanning 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.920 your emails. You have to give them approval to go 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.880 inside your email box, which some people may not be 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:36.440 comfortable with UH, and I would be very weary about 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:38.600 I don't know if it's weary or what's the what's 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.839 the term when you're you just gotta be careful when 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:44.160 you give unfettered access to your Gmail right or your 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:48.040 email account because there could be problems there. But these companies, 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:49.520 you know, if they're on the up and up, like 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.040 unroll me, as a legitimate company. So anyway, they go 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.560 into your email box, they scan it all, they look 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.480 for emails that are subscription emails, and then they present 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:58.679 you with those and they say, do you want to 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.560 unsubscribe to these? And you can do that. It's easy, 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.359 it's simple. They take care of it. But in the meantime, 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.600 in the background, what they're doing it's a data play. 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.280 So they're now actually also analyzing all your receipts from 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.600 Uber and all your Target receipts and whatever things they 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.920 can find in there that can help them come up 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:20.800 with data, and that data they then sell to other people. 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.440 So they can say, oh, a lot of people are 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.880 traveling to Milwaukee right now, and here's how we know 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:30.240 this because we have we saw a bunch of travel 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.320 receipts to Milwaukee. And by the way, flights there are 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.760 generally two hundred and fifty dollars. A lot of people 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.640 are buying this doll from Target right now, and so 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.520 again they're getting all this data. So that's the main one. 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.640 I don't know why it stopped working for you, because 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.920 nothing has changed with them. But what I would do 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.040 in this case is I'm not familiar with any other 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.800 of these sites, but I would use the old versus search, 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.240 and so I did unroll me Versus and there's one 0:10:56.280 --> 0:11:00.320 called clean Fox, and there's one called Mailstrom, and I 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.000 looked up Mailstrom, and I thought that one actually seemed 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.760 pretty good. The other one, the Fox one, is like 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.040 out of the UK, so it may not be as 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.120 good here in the US. But mail Strom looks pretty 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.520 legit and it says unsubscribing to delete thousands of messages 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.720 in just a few clicks. Now, if I'm doing my 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:22.800 due diligence on this, uh, if I'm looking at you 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.160 know this, I'm kind of looking at the pricing, I'm 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.000 looking at their Twitter. I'm just looking to make sure 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:31.000 that they are legit. And so for your free trial, 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:34.880 you get five thousand emails. Basic you is nine dollars 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:39.199 a month or sixty dollars a year. So you can 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.080 try this one out, but it's a little more expensive. 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.200 So they just tweeted a couple of weeks ago, and 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.000 so I think that they look pretty trustworthy. They've you know, 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.800 they're from Baltimore, Maryland. So that's the one that I 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.560 would take a look at. Is is Mailstrom M A 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:57.439 I L S T R O M and unroll me. 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:59.160 I used unroll me when I when I did a 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.080 story on it a while back, and it was fine. 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.280 I just don't really like giving access to my email 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:08.320 account to a lot of places because it's just it's 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.560 a little tricky. And if you ever want to see 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.560 who you who has access to your email, all you 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:18.160 have to do is go to Google third Party Permissions 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.760 and there's a you go to my account dot Google 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.560 dot com slash permissions and you can see which third 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.800 party apps have access to your account. So I can 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:36.040 tell yeah, see, there's a lot of these that have Yes, see, 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.640 I can see what has access to Google Drive. All okay, 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.400 So a lot of these games that my kids play 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.280 have access to Google Play, which I don't like. Ooh see, 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.240 I don't like this one. Oh see this one. This 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.840 is bad. This is really bad. So I just found 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:55.160 one that my kid gave access to somehow on my phone. 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:59.720 Kicked the buddy has access to Google Drive ooh see, 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.000 and delete its own configuration data and Google Drive. Okay, 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.040 that's okay. Its own configuration data is okay, but I'm 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.640 still removing access to that. You really want to be 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:12.920 careful when it says has access to full Google Drive. 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.600 So see edit create and delete all of your Google 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:18.920 Drive files. That's the red flag. You got to be 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:23.160 sure you trust this trip. It also has access to 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.320 my full Gmail, but I like that because they scan 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:30.400 my Gmail to look for any reservation thing. So anyway, 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.120 my account dot Google dot com slash permissions. I know 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:34.640 I went off on a tangent, but I think that's 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.760 really important to go through there and to make sure 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:41.840 that these websites that you authorize with your Google account 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:46.920 don't have permission forever if you don't need that. All right, 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.559 let's get to the next story. Windows eleven available on 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.480 October fifth. Microsoft announced that it will be a free 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:57.720 upgrade to eligible Windows ten PCs, and also PCs that 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.760 come preloaded with Windows eleven will be available for purchase 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:04.880 on that day. So little background on Windows eleven not 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.640 a huge It doesn't look like a lot of huge changes. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.120 But again we're just seeing this slow evolution to things 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.520 looking more modern, more clean, more fresh, you know, more 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:18.880 simple designs. The sounds bring you a sense of calm 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.520 and ease, which is cool. The start menu is at 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.840 the center now of the screen instead of on the side, 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.640 and that's mainly because monitors are getting bigger and different 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.880 and different configurations, and it's just easier for the start 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.800 menu to be in one place. All these kind of 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.880 like snap layout things are also built in. I love 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.360 this little app on my Mac called Rectangle, which helps 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.640 me move windows to different places on my screen, like 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.840 the left half, the center half, the bottom half, the 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.160 top half, the top left, the top right, the bottom right, 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.800 the first third, the second third, maximize center. So I 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:54.920 love having that ability because a lot of times on 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.000 my MacBook, I've got the sixteen inch MacBook Pro, I 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.680 want to put one window as a third of the 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.200 entire screen, and then another window as a quarter of 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.920 the entire screen, and so this lets me really easily 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:10.120 do that. And so Windows has had similar things like 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.680 the I think it was called Snap, but it was 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:17.120 more limited. This is much more robust in how you 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:22.560 can arrange your Windows. They also built Microsoft Teams integrated 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.640 into the taskbar. There's widgets, and the one feature that 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:29.240 will not be launching is Android apps. They said they 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:30.960 were going to be able to run on Windows eleven, 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.680 but it looks like that ran into a roadblock, and 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.640 so now Microsoft says we look forward to continuing our 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:40.040 journey to bring Android apps to Windows eleven and the 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.840 Microsoft Store through our collaboration with Amazon and Intel. This 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:47.600 will start with a preview for Windows insiders over the 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.560 coming months. And so what that means is that a 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.120 lot of people will not be getting that from day one. 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.880 It looks like it's delayed until twenty twenty two. From 0:15:55.880 --> 0:16:00.960 everything I was reading, the free upgrade starts on October 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:02.920 fifth to Windows eleven, but that does not mean that 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.520 you have to upgrade on that day. Now, if you're 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.200 a nerd like me, of course you cannot wait for 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.280 something like this to come out. And of course I 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.920 will be upgrading the Windows laptop that I have, and 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.560 I can't wait to see all the changes and what's new. 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.000 I've not been running the beta or whatever the tester 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.600 version is that they put out. But if you are 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.600 eligible for the upgrade, eventually your computer will give you 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.360 a little notification that says, hey, you can upgrade to 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.880 Windows eleven if you want, or if you're a real nerd, 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.120 you can actually go to your settings and then Windows 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.120 Update and then check for updates and you can see 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.680 if it's ready for your device. But Microsoft is giving 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.040 this a long runway they say most eligible devices will 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.800 be offered the upgrade by mid twenty twenty two. So 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:47.320 that does not mean, you know, they're not going to 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:51.680 just put out this to every PC on day one. 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:53.880 They say they're going to roll this out based on 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:59.320 intelligence that consider hardware eligibility, reliability metrics, the age of device, 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.440 and other facts that impact the upgrade experience. So if 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:05.040 you have a really old computer, Microsoft's not going to 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.440 push Windows eleven on you day one because they're like, look, 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.480 we're gonna let this person kind of you know, sit 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.000 with their computer they've got and we'll we'll offer it 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.200 to them last because we figure since they've got in 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.960 a computer that's seven years old, they probably aren't really 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.200 looking to upgrade to Windows eleven on the first day. 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:21.680 Whether and if you have like a really nice, high 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:25.120 powered computer, they're thinking, Okay, this is gonna download fast, 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:26.840 this is going to run fast. Let's get this to 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.399 this person. They seem like they're more of a power user. 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:31.679 So it's a smart way to do it. But the 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:33.600 real nerds will find it no matter what. So it 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.359 really doesn't matter. That's for the average person that is 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.399 just you know, sitting there looking at their computer and saying, oh, 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.159 Windows eleven is available. I'll click the X on that 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.199 notification because I'm just gonna stick with what I know 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.840 for as long as humanly possible. If you want to 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.280 do that, If you don't want to upgrade at all, 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.359 you can stick with Windows ten. Microsoft says they're going 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.920 to support Windows ten through October fourteenth, twenty twenty five. 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:04.680 All right, let's get to the next question. Larry says, 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:06.840 I'm going on a big trip at the end of September. 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.840 I got a new smaller slash, lighter weight yet powerful. 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.680 I need a new smaller, slash, lighter weight, yet powerful 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.200 phone charger for my LG Android phone. Got a couple 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:20.880 of recommendations something pocket sized, thanks sent from Yahoo Male 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:26.600 on Android. And my thing is to just go with Anchor, 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.880 a n K er. So if you go on Amazon 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.640 and you search Anchor, you will find the Anchor power Core. 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:35.879 The one that I would recommend is the ten thousand. 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.960 It's small, it's compact, it fits in your pocket. Oh, 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:41.959 it actually comes in different colors now, so you can 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:45.760 get it in white, red, blue, or black. This thing 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.800 has sixty two and forty six ratings on Amazon. A 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:52.120 lot of people have purchased this thing and they continue 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:56.400 to purchase it. And it's small. It's small, it's lightweight. 0:18:56.440 --> 0:19:00.399 It's going to charge a Samsung probably twice. Sorry, you 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.840 have an LG, so it's probably gonna charge it twice. Now, 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.040 the thing I don't like about this, you're it's a 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.760 little bit cheaper. They have They have various versions, so 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.359 it kind of depends what's important to you. For me, 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.119 I ideally would like a USB C in and out 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:20.200 and that's going to be just a little bit more 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:24.840 costly than this this one. So this one looks like 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:29.880 it's micro USB for the input and then it's USB 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.840 for the output. It says USBC on here, but I 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.040 guess you can use the USBC cable like on the 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.280 other end to charge your phone. So anyway, the main 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:41.200 thing to know about this is look for the type 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:44.120 of connector you want. If you're going USBC to USBC, 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.959 that's going to be the fastest for charging your Android device. 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:51.159 USB A to USBC is going to be just a 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:55.600 little bit slower. And yeah, that's basically it. And then 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:59.119 ten thousand million hours is going to be a smaller device, 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.280 but the larger that number, So Let's say you go 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.560 with a twenty thousand million amp hour battery, You're gonna 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:07.000 get more charges on your phone. So if you're going 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:09.280 on a big trip, I'm guessing you're gonna be out 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:10.919 and about for the whole day. Let's say you're going 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.520 to Italy or Europe or something, so you want to 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:15.120 have this in your pocket so that if your phone 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:17.159 dies from all the pictures you're taken and all the 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:20.120 GPS and stuff, you can easily charge it. This would 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.080 give you basically two charges of your phone, and I 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.600 think that would be enough for one day because you 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:27.800 also have the charges on your like the charge on 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:31.120 your phone, so that would give you basically three times 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:33.479 the use of your smartphone, which I think is pretty 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.119 pretty legit. So that's what I would recommend. If you 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.199 want a bigger device, just go with more millionamp hours. 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:43.359 Twenty thousand would probably give you like four charges, but 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:45.960 again that's gonna be a much bigger device, So it's 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:47.760 always a push and pull with this kind of stuff. 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:49.879 You just have to as long as you know what 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:53.159 you're getting into. That's really the best thing. Now. Mofi 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:57.880 also makes excellent charging cases, or I should say charging 0:20:57.920 --> 0:20:59.480 They used to do a lot of charging cases, not 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:02.720 so much any more, but a lot of charging bricks. 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:05.520 And so that's a brand if you if you really 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:07.680 want a good brand, that's another good brand. But they're 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:09.480 going to be a little bit more expensive than Anchor. 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:12.080 I'm sure you can even get one from Amazon Basics 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:14.439 on Amazon's website if you really want to go cheap, 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:17.560 but with batteries and stuff, I would go with brands 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:20.320 that I trust, and I've tested both Anchor and Mophi, 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:24.120 and those are the two that I really like. Next 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:27.560 story up is Apple announced the first states to get 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:31.399 the digital driver's Licenses and Apple Wallet. So the first 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:34.320 two states that you will be able to scan your 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:37.280 license and store it in your iPhone will be Arizona 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:41.680 and Georgia. This is a huge deal. Now they kind 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.439 of talk about they don't really talk about where you 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:47.960 can use this ID right now. They're saying just they 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:52.119 only mention the TSA. So if you're you know, at 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:55.439 a liquor store or you know, you know, trying to 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:59.280 get into anything that requires ID, I don't know if 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:00.600 you'll be able to use this. Let's say you get 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:03.640 pulled over and you got to show your your ID. 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:06.600 I'm not sure that the police would accept the ID 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:10.280 driver's license on your phone just yet. Now maybe they will. Maybe. 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:12.760 When I looked up Arizona and Georgia, it seems like 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:16.160 they already have a digital driver's license program that's existing, 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:19.760 it just wasn't integrated with the iPhone and Apple Wallet 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:21.960 as deeply. So maybe you can in those states just 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:24.679 show your digital license. I'm not sure. Here in California, 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:27.160 we don't have this ability just yet, but the next 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:32.320 states to roll this out are Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma, 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:35.359 and Utah. They will be next. So here's how this works. 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:39.120 You scan your driver's license with your iPhone, and then 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:41.719 you take a selfie and you move your face around 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:45.400 and somehow, with that combination the one two punch, your 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:48.280 state figures out that you are who you say you are. 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:50.720 And now you have a digital copy of your driver's 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:53.359 license or your state ID in Apple Wallet. And then 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:55.040 when you want to present it, you can just double 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:58.960 tap or you can just double click your Interesting it 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:01.080 says you can just tap your iPhone. Okay, I'm guessing 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:03.560 if it's still access the wallet. Of course, you double 0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:07.080 click the SERI button. On your iPhone, which will bring 0:23:07.119 --> 0:23:10.399 up your Apple Wallet and you pull your ID, you 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:13.320 select that, and then you don't show that to the 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:17.159 TSA person. You actually just tap your phone to a reader. 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:19.879 And I really like this for a lot of reasons. 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:22.560 So I was in Target the other day we happen 0:23:22.600 --> 0:23:25.159 to be buying a bottle of wine, and I just 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:27.919 think it's really funny that at a place like Target, I, 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:31.720 who is mister privacy centric, just hand over my ID 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:34.879 to this random cashier that then looks at all the 0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:37.320 information on my ID, where I live, how old I am, 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:40.520 my date of birth, you know, my height, my weight, everything, 0:23:40.960 --> 0:23:42.840 and they just type in my day to birth and 0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:45.280 you know, send me on my merry way. So I 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:47.480 always found that really interesting that we just hand over 0:23:47.480 --> 0:23:50.919 our IDs to so many random people, right, And so 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:54.240 what Apple is saying that this is actually more secure 0:23:54.280 --> 0:23:57.600 because when you tap your phone to that little reader, 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:02.320 it's actually just verified the information that the TSA needs 0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:06.200 to give that person a green light check. Now I'm 0:24:06.240 --> 0:24:10.320 guessing it also somehow displays my picture because it's that's 0:24:10.359 --> 0:24:12.840 the only information it needs to link me up to 0:24:12.920 --> 0:24:16.359 what's on my phone. But in the background, it's verifying. Okay, 0:24:16.400 --> 0:24:18.480 this is this person's date of birth that checks out, 0:24:18.760 --> 0:24:21.320 this person is clear to fly today that checks out. 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:24.120 And this person's name matches their ticket that checks out. 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:26.720 We don't need to show the agent any of that information. 0:24:26.880 --> 0:24:28.960 All we need to show you is, hey, does this 0:24:29.000 --> 0:24:30.960 person's picture look like who they say they are? Cool, 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:34.040 because we've verified all the other stuff on our own 0:24:34.480 --> 0:24:37.280 on the back end. So I think that's really powerful, 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:41.920 especially if some retailers start to accept this tap as 0:24:42.080 --> 0:24:44.920 the preferred way of showing your ID, because it does 0:24:45.080 --> 0:24:47.479 make things a lot more safe and secure for people. 0:24:47.840 --> 0:24:50.879 There's also potential for fraud, and I think that Apple 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:54.879 and all these states that are allowing this probably understand that, 0:24:55.000 --> 0:24:58.480 and they've probably thought through some of these scenarios that 0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:01.520 people can try to get over on. And I think that, 0:25:02.359 --> 0:25:04.320 you know, that's above my pay grade. I mean, I 0:25:04.359 --> 0:25:06.280 have to just trust that they figured out that kind 0:25:06.280 --> 0:25:09.480 of stuff. But Apple, when it comes to security and privacy, 0:25:09.520 --> 0:25:12.720 says Apple and the states do not know where or 0:25:12.760 --> 0:25:17.120 when users are presenting their IDs, which is kind of surprising. 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:19.240 I would think that they would get a list of that, 0:25:19.560 --> 0:25:22.199 but you know, for tracking purposes, for later on, but 0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:26.440 you know, maybe not. And they also support this mobile standard. 0:25:26.520 --> 0:25:29.080 So just because Apple is out front on this does 0:25:29.119 --> 0:25:32.320 not mean that this will not come to Android. In fact, 0:25:32.400 --> 0:25:34.439 I have no doubt this feature will will be on 0:25:34.520 --> 0:25:37.280 Android at some point. It's just not there just yet 0:25:37.320 --> 0:25:40.680 as far as I know. So I think this is great. 0:25:40.680 --> 0:25:42.600 I'm very excited about this. I can't wait till it 0:25:42.600 --> 0:25:45.280 comes to California because you know, my goal is to 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:48.080 get rid of my wallet. And I did a little 0:25:48.119 --> 0:25:51.520 video on my Instagram about this little Apple mag Safe 0:25:51.560 --> 0:25:53.919 wallet that I was attaching to my iPhone and it 0:25:54.000 --> 0:25:56.679 was great. I used it in Vegas. But there are 0:25:56.760 --> 0:25:58.840 pros and cons to that. It's a little bulky on 0:25:58.880 --> 0:26:01.359 my phone, and some times it's just easier for me 0:26:01.400 --> 0:26:03.480 to carry my wallet because I can carry more cards. 0:26:04.000 --> 0:26:07.960 But I like the idea that eventually I will be cashless. 0:26:08.000 --> 0:26:11.280 I will be just tap to pay and tap to ID. 0:26:11.359 --> 0:26:19.160 That is a really interesting future. Laurie says, Hey, Rich, 0:26:19.200 --> 0:26:22.000 I want to take my son's pictures and video from 0:26:22.040 --> 0:26:24.600 his wedding off of my Mac. What do you suggest 0:26:24.640 --> 0:26:27.480 I use to back up these pictures on an external drive? 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:31.159 Thanks so much, Lori Well, Laurie, I would recommend a 0:26:31.200 --> 0:26:33.520 couple of things. Number One, I don't think you should 0:26:33.680 --> 0:26:35.880 just have them on an external drive. I think that's 0:26:35.880 --> 0:26:38.120 a good place to have them, but I don't think 0:26:38.160 --> 0:26:42.080 that that's the only place, and so that's pretty easy. 0:26:42.320 --> 0:26:45.159 I mean, what I would do is just get a 0:26:45.240 --> 0:26:48.800 Seagate drive or you know, or a Western Digital drive 0:26:48.840 --> 0:26:51.800 on Amazon. They're both basically the same price. Let me 0:26:51.800 --> 0:26:53.760 see how much of those are going for. So if 0:26:53.800 --> 0:26:58.600 I go a Seagate portable two terabyte external hard drive 0:26:59.200 --> 0:27:03.280 USB three three point zero is sixty dollars on the Mac, 0:27:03.400 --> 0:27:05.760 you probably don't even need two terabytes. You probably only 0:27:05.760 --> 0:27:09.640 need one terabyte, which is fifty dollars. So you get 0:27:09.640 --> 0:27:11.320 one of those, you plug it into the Mac, you 0:27:11.480 --> 0:27:15.920 drag everything over onto the drive, and you are done. Now. 0:27:15.960 --> 0:27:18.720 I would not stop there. I would also upload these 0:27:18.720 --> 0:27:22.359 pictures to a cloud service, and with that cloud service, 0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:25.920 my personal preferred would be Google Photos. And the reason 0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:28.560 why I like Google Photos is because once these pictures 0:27:28.560 --> 0:27:31.200 from the wedding and videos are in there, you can 0:27:31.240 --> 0:27:35.560 now go through and give names to the faces in 0:27:35.600 --> 0:27:38.159 those photos and videos. And so if you want to 0:27:38.160 --> 0:27:40.639 see all the pictures of Edna at the wedding. You 0:27:40.680 --> 0:27:43.439 can click Edna's face and now you see all the 0:27:43.440 --> 0:27:45.800 pictures of her, and you can send those off to her, 0:27:45.880 --> 0:27:48.040 or make a book about them, or you know, print 0:27:48.040 --> 0:27:50.040 them out, whatever you want to do. So it just 0:27:50.080 --> 0:27:54.320 gives you more flexibility with organizing those photos. It also 0:27:54.440 --> 0:27:56.720 just gives you another place to store those photos. Let's 0:27:56.720 --> 0:27:59.440 say this little portable drive that you get brakes or 0:27:59.680 --> 0:28:02.199 you know who knows you lose it, there's still at 0:28:02.320 --> 0:28:05.240 least you have a copy on Google Photos. Now, on 0:28:05.320 --> 0:28:09.399 Google Photos, the default is this, uh well, actually, you know, 0:28:09.480 --> 0:28:11.000 I'm not sure what the default is anymore, but I 0:28:11.040 --> 0:28:14.080 would use the original resolution on Google Photos because you 0:28:14.080 --> 0:28:16.679 don't want to lose any quality with these pictures, because 0:28:17.240 --> 0:28:20.800 you know, these are precious. These are pictures that your 0:28:21.359 --> 0:28:22.920 son had at his wedding, and you don't want to 0:28:22.960 --> 0:28:27.719 lose those, that's for sure. All right, let's get to 0:28:28.080 --> 0:28:30.800 the next story. This is something that I got a 0:28:30.840 --> 0:28:34.760 lot of emails about. Low Cast is shutting down. So 0:28:34.920 --> 0:28:38.200 low cast is this streaming service that lets you stream 0:28:38.240 --> 0:28:41.520 local channels and it was pretty cool for people that 0:28:41.640 --> 0:28:43.240 used it because it was kind of a stop gap 0:28:43.320 --> 0:28:47.240 between antenna and the streaming services. Now in many cities, 0:28:47.680 --> 0:28:50.480 the streaming services include all the channels that you want. 0:28:50.800 --> 0:28:54.240 Here in Los Angeles, KTLA is not on streaming services 0:28:54.280 --> 0:28:57.640 except our own. And so when we were not on 0:28:57.880 --> 0:29:00.280 any streaming service, how do you get us? Well, you 0:29:00.320 --> 0:29:03.120 had to have an antenna or cable, and so a 0:29:03.120 --> 0:29:07.000 lot of people turned to different solutions, you know, watching 0:29:07.120 --> 0:29:09.760 us on the web. I think we were on low Cast, 0:29:09.760 --> 0:29:12.239 although I'm not really sure if KTLA was on there 0:29:12.280 --> 0:29:15.000 because I never used it. But my mom did in 0:29:15.280 --> 0:29:20.000 New York, New Jersey, and she liked watching Channel seven ABC, 0:29:20.800 --> 0:29:22.920 and the only way to get it without an antenna, 0:29:23.040 --> 0:29:25.520 well that she didn't have to pay too much for 0:29:26.080 --> 0:29:27.800 was low Cast, and so we set her up with that. 0:29:27.840 --> 0:29:29.520 It was like a five fifty a month you pay, 0:29:30.080 --> 0:29:32.440 and it was great. She loved it. It worked great well. 0:29:33.000 --> 0:29:36.200 They basically shut down overnight, and so in all these 0:29:36.200 --> 0:29:41.560 cities including Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Orlando, 0:29:41.600 --> 0:29:47.320 New York, LA, Miami, Madison, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, Tri cities. 0:29:48.280 --> 0:29:51.640 In Washington is that where I used to live, Yakoma area, 0:29:51.840 --> 0:29:55.440 Tampa Bay. It shut down overnight, so boom, it's gone done. 0:29:55.600 --> 0:29:59.680 So the big networks ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC they 0:30:00.200 --> 0:30:02.720 did a copyright infringement lawsuit. This is according to the 0:30:02.720 --> 0:30:06.000 Streamable website. And they said, Nah, you can't do this. 0:30:06.000 --> 0:30:08.600 This is our stuff. You can't just sell it, you 0:30:08.600 --> 0:30:11.000 can't resell it, you can't say that you're putting up 0:30:11.000 --> 0:30:13.560 antenna's and just send this to people's houses, because we 0:30:13.640 --> 0:30:15.720 have our own streaming services and we want to control this. 0:30:15.880 --> 0:30:17.960 And so I'm not going to get into the nitty 0:30:18.000 --> 0:30:20.120 gritty of whether I think they're right or wrong, but 0:30:20.240 --> 0:30:23.480 this is the reality that we're in. Other startups have 0:30:23.560 --> 0:30:26.760 tried this. They have. There was another one. I can't 0:30:26.800 --> 0:30:29.560 remember what the name was, like Arable or Arrow or 0:30:29.600 --> 0:30:32.520 something like that, but it was a company that put 0:30:32.520 --> 0:30:36.200 tiny antennas on roofs, like a farm of antennas. And 0:30:36.240 --> 0:30:38.800 their argument was that no, no, we're just we're just putting 0:30:38.840 --> 0:30:42.640 we're just selling antennas to people virtually, and we're just 0:30:42.720 --> 0:30:45.480 giving the stream from that antenna to people's computers or 0:30:45.520 --> 0:30:49.320 their phone. And again, the court was not having it, 0:30:49.520 --> 0:30:51.760 and so they shut that down. It took a little 0:30:51.760 --> 0:30:53.400 bit longer for low casts. That was actually kind of 0:30:53.400 --> 0:30:56.200 impressed how long they survived. It's been a couple of 0:30:56.280 --> 0:30:58.720 years for sure, but they are now shut down. And 0:30:58.760 --> 0:31:00.280 so a lot of people emailing me rich, which what 0:31:00.280 --> 0:31:02.120 do I do? How do I watch my local stations? 0:31:02.120 --> 0:31:04.400 And I said, I can't help you with that. I mean, 0:31:04.800 --> 0:31:08.040 all the local stations in LA are on streaming services. Yeah, 0:31:08.040 --> 0:31:10.600 they're just way more expensive to access. And when it 0:31:10.600 --> 0:31:13.600 comes to KTLA, there's it's a no brainer. We have 0:31:13.640 --> 0:31:16.480 a free ktla plus app that you can download to Roku, 0:31:16.560 --> 0:31:21.880 Apple TV and also Fire TV, so you can get us. 0:31:21.960 --> 0:31:24.520 And quite honestly, that's all I care about, because that's 0:31:24.520 --> 0:31:27.080 why I work for and to me, that's what I'm watching. 0:31:27.120 --> 0:31:29.960 If I'm watching local news and all the shows that 0:31:30.040 --> 0:31:31.480 you get on the other networks, you know, like if 0:31:31.520 --> 0:31:34.560 you're watching a show on ABC, NBC, CBS, whatever, a 0:31:34.560 --> 0:31:37.239 lot of those are available on the streaming services, and 0:31:37.280 --> 0:31:39.720 so I get it. Yeah, this is definitely not ideal, 0:31:41.200 --> 0:31:43.240 but it's going to force a lot of people to 0:31:43.360 --> 0:31:47.840 subscribe to more expensive streaming services. But this is you know, 0:31:47.920 --> 0:31:50.400 I don't write these rules, and I'm not in charge 0:31:50.400 --> 0:31:53.040 of saying whether this should be allowed or not. And 0:31:53.320 --> 0:31:56.320 this is just how the cookie crumbles, and so low 0:31:56.360 --> 0:31:58.840 cast is shut down and it goes from five to 0:31:58.920 --> 0:32:01.080 fifty a month that you paid for that as a donation, 0:32:01.320 --> 0:32:04.760 or maybe you just watch the ads too, you might 0:32:04.800 --> 0:32:07.840 need to now spend twenty thirty forty fifty sixty seventy 0:32:07.920 --> 0:32:10.400 eighty dollars on a streaming service. So it's not ideal 0:32:10.400 --> 0:32:13.320 in any way, shape or form, but that's what's happening. 0:32:13.400 --> 0:32:16.160 And so if you're if you're looking for KTLA, you 0:32:16.160 --> 0:32:19.160 can download the KTLA Plus app. If you're looking for 0:32:19.240 --> 0:32:21.400 other stations, a lot of them do stream for free. 0:32:21.440 --> 0:32:25.480 Like I know that, I think CBS does. I'm not 0:32:25.520 --> 0:32:28.240 sure about the other ones. I just don't watch them 0:32:28.320 --> 0:32:32.000 enough to know. But you know, there are ways, there 0:32:32.040 --> 0:32:34.120 are streaming services to get this. And at the end 0:32:34.160 --> 0:32:35.920 of the day, get an antenna. If you really want 0:32:35.960 --> 0:32:38.640 this stuff for free, spend the you know, fifty bucks, 0:32:38.640 --> 0:32:43.880 buy an antenna. The company that I like is Glide 0:32:44.160 --> 0:32:47.920 gl No, it's not Glide. Antennas Direct is the one 0:32:48.000 --> 0:32:50.960 I like, and they also own Mohu. Now Mohu, So 0:32:51.000 --> 0:32:53.480 get an antenna installed in your house and then if 0:32:53.480 --> 0:32:55.720 you really want to have a DVR functionality, you can 0:32:55.760 --> 0:33:00.120 get a thing called Tableau t a b l oh 0:33:00.440 --> 0:33:03.240 and that can give you GVR functionality. And by the way, 0:33:03.360 --> 0:33:07.120 all that the antenna plus tableau. Yeah, you have to 0:33:07.120 --> 0:33:09.480 pay one time out of pocket, but after that it's 0:33:09.520 --> 0:33:12.959 all there's no monthly fees for that for the basic services. 0:33:13.480 --> 0:33:23.680 So that's what's happening there. And yeah, Rance says, good morning, 0:33:23.760 --> 0:33:26.479 Rich I'm a retired welder, and that should answer it. 0:33:26.760 --> 0:33:28.880 I have a question. I don't know if that makes sense. 0:33:28.920 --> 0:33:30.960 I have an iMac now, but it's about four years 0:33:31.000 --> 0:33:33.840 old and getting slower. What is the best computer for me? 0:33:33.920 --> 0:33:36.080 I just do a little banking, mostly search. The Mac 0:33:36.200 --> 0:33:38.600 is easy for me. Are they still a little safer 0:33:38.640 --> 0:33:42.400 than the others? Please help this old man, Thank you, Rance, Rance. 0:33:42.440 --> 0:33:43.960 I don't know if you need a new iMac. Four 0:33:44.040 --> 0:33:46.360 years old is not that old for an iMac. I 0:33:46.400 --> 0:33:49.080 think what you should do with this iMac is get 0:33:49.120 --> 0:33:52.160 someone that you trust, get someone that you know, get 0:33:52.200 --> 0:33:55.840 some help and actually just reformat this and reinstall the 0:33:55.840 --> 0:33:59.040 operating system fresh. So yeah, your computer might be a 0:33:59.080 --> 0:34:01.480 little bit slower than was from day one, but four 0:34:01.560 --> 0:34:04.280 years old is for what you're doing. If you're doing 0:34:04.280 --> 0:34:06.960 just a little banking and mostly search, you don't really 0:34:06.960 --> 0:34:10.360 need a high powered, horsepower system to do this. I 0:34:10.360 --> 0:34:12.439 think four years old, you could probably get another two 0:34:12.520 --> 0:34:14.880 three years out of this computer, So that would be 0:34:14.920 --> 0:34:18.480 my first choice. Find someone that's knowledgeable about this and say, hey, 0:34:18.560 --> 0:34:22.400 can you do a clean reinstall of my operating system 0:34:22.480 --> 0:34:25.239 on my iMac? That is the question to ask, and 0:34:25.280 --> 0:34:27.239 you can bring it to a local place. Go on Yelp, 0:34:27.280 --> 0:34:29.759 look for a local Mac shop and they should be 0:34:29.800 --> 0:34:32.080 able to do that for you. You can also, depending 0:34:32.120 --> 0:34:34.600 on the Mac the iMac, see if you can add 0:34:34.640 --> 0:34:36.560 memory to this. I know it's been a while since 0:34:36.560 --> 0:34:39.359 they've allowed that, but if that's a possibility, you can 0:34:39.440 --> 0:34:42.520 do that. You know, it could be your internet connection 0:34:42.600 --> 0:34:45.440 that's slow. But if you're going to buy a new computer, 0:34:45.520 --> 0:34:48.360 I would just recommend going with the base new iMac, 0:34:48.400 --> 0:34:51.520 which is the iMac M one, and that thing's just 0:34:51.520 --> 0:34:54.000 going to blow you away because it is it is 0:34:54.080 --> 0:34:57.160 extremely fast, and it's going to be way faster than 0:34:57.200 --> 0:35:00.080 your old computer. But again, I don't necessarily think you 0:35:00.160 --> 0:35:02.040 need a new computer. This is a problem that could 0:35:02.080 --> 0:35:05.480 be solved with maybe just redoing the software, because you know, 0:35:05.560 --> 0:35:09.359 over time our computers get kind of bogged down with 0:35:09.400 --> 0:35:11.880 all the little fragments of things that you know is 0:35:11.960 --> 0:35:14.760 on there, all the little you know, the software gets bloated. 0:35:14.840 --> 0:35:17.279 You delete stuff it's still on there, parts of it. 0:35:17.680 --> 0:35:20.200 The other thing you might do is just change your 0:35:20.200 --> 0:35:24.120 web browser. You can maybe try changing to Safari or 0:35:24.880 --> 0:35:27.359 Microsoft Edge if you're not already using one of those. 0:35:27.400 --> 0:35:30.759 If you're using Chrome, Chrome is notoriously slow on a 0:35:30.800 --> 0:35:34.720 lot of Mac computers and computers in general, so especially 0:35:34.800 --> 0:35:37.880 the more things you have installed, the more extensions you've got, 0:35:38.040 --> 0:35:40.520 So you can switch to Safari and see if that 0:35:40.600 --> 0:35:42.319 works for you. That might just feel like a new 0:35:42.320 --> 0:35:46.600 computer right there. But again, I personally would go through 0:35:46.719 --> 0:35:49.279 and delete everything on this computer, back it up of 0:35:49.320 --> 0:35:52.080 course first, and then do a clean install, and then 0:35:52.239 --> 0:35:56.719 just just copy your files back. Don't do like a 0:35:57.200 --> 0:36:00.480 restore from backup on time machine, because that's just gonna 0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:02.160 put all the garbage back on there. So I would 0:36:02.200 --> 0:36:04.279 not do that. The other thing you can do is 0:36:04.320 --> 0:36:07.319 run an app like Clean my Mac, and that might 0:36:07.440 --> 0:36:11.040 give you a little new lease on life with this computer. 0:36:11.200 --> 0:36:14.560 Clean my Mac is the program that I like, and 0:36:14.600 --> 0:36:17.800 it will go through and scan your computer for old files, 0:36:17.840 --> 0:36:20.760 big files stuff. You know, it can help you uninstall 0:36:20.800 --> 0:36:23.360 all your programs that you don't need. So that's the 0:36:23.560 --> 0:36:25.360 kind of the light way of doing this. But I 0:36:25.840 --> 0:36:29.200 would definitely squeeze another year about out of this computer, 0:36:29.280 --> 0:36:31.879 at least a year. I think you can get two 0:36:31.880 --> 0:36:35.960 more years out of this computer, all right. There's some 0:36:36.120 --> 0:36:39.520 new rules over in China when it comes to online 0:36:39.600 --> 0:36:42.759 video games, and this definitely got people up. In a 0:36:42.760 --> 0:36:46.479 little hubbub on my Facebook page, people were talking about 0:36:46.520 --> 0:36:49.319 these rules because over in China, apparently they have a 0:36:49.320 --> 0:36:53.160 big problem with kids being addicted to video games, and honestly, 0:36:53.280 --> 0:36:55.080 I don't think it's much better here in the US. 0:36:56.640 --> 0:36:59.400 I know in my house it is a struggle with 0:36:59.480 --> 0:37:01.840 these games. I know I've talked about this before, but 0:37:01.960 --> 0:37:05.480 roadblocks is blocked, so there's not even roadblocks in my house, 0:37:05.560 --> 0:37:07.839 and it's still a problem. The only thing my kids 0:37:07.880 --> 0:37:10.680 really play is Minecraft, and once they get on there, 0:37:10.719 --> 0:37:13.800 they can't stop. I mean, my older kid is a 0:37:13.840 --> 0:37:15.960 little bit better than my little kid, but it's a 0:37:15.960 --> 0:37:17.879 real problem. And I get it. They love it. They 0:37:17.920 --> 0:37:19.759 love what they're doing, and I think it's cute. And 0:37:19.800 --> 0:37:22.279 I think it's fun, but it's this weird thing that 0:37:22.320 --> 0:37:24.560 gets over on them that they just can't stop playing it. 0:37:24.560 --> 0:37:26.880 They just want to play forever. And my wife and 0:37:26.920 --> 0:37:29.400 I joke, I mean, last night, it was kind of 0:37:29.400 --> 0:37:31.239 an off night, so we let the kids play their 0:37:31.239 --> 0:37:33.960 iPads and eat dinner at the table with their iPads. Well, 0:37:34.000 --> 0:37:36.120 my wife and I watched the TV show and that's 0:37:36.160 --> 0:37:39.560 kind of a treat. But the reality is we just joke, 0:37:39.600 --> 0:37:41.440 We go, we don't even know our kids are in 0:37:41.480 --> 0:37:45.080 this home because they are in the playroom playing the 0:37:45.160 --> 0:37:48.680 video games and they just are so they just don't 0:37:48.680 --> 0:37:51.120 even care about anything else at that point. Once they're 0:37:51.120 --> 0:37:53.080 on these games, it's like they can just play forever 0:37:53.160 --> 0:37:56.439 until we're like, Okay, it's time, it's over. And there's 0:37:56.480 --> 0:37:58.439 been times when we say it's over and it gets 0:37:58.480 --> 0:38:01.640 pretty messy. You know. Kids get angry, they get mad, 0:38:01.840 --> 0:38:04.839 they call us names, they throw their iPad And I 0:38:04.880 --> 0:38:07.319 am sure I am not the only parent listening to 0:38:07.400 --> 0:38:10.799 this or the only parent that's experienced this. I think 0:38:10.800 --> 0:38:13.160 this happens a lot, and I think that a lot 0:38:13.160 --> 0:38:16.400 of parents the default is just to say it's just 0:38:16.480 --> 0:38:18.480 easier to let this go. And to not deal with 0:38:18.520 --> 0:38:20.759 it and to let my kid play and give my 0:38:20.840 --> 0:38:23.640 kid on access as much as they want. But that 0:38:23.719 --> 0:38:28.120 is I think that that's a problem. And so anyway, 0:38:28.840 --> 0:38:31.920 here over in China, they've got new rules. So here 0:38:31.960 --> 0:38:35.840 are the rules for online video games in China. No 0:38:35.960 --> 0:38:39.200 playing during the week and on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. 0:38:39.840 --> 0:38:42.759 No Friday, Saturday, Sunday. You get one hour a day 0:38:43.239 --> 0:38:46.120 and week on public holidays you get three hours a day. 0:38:46.840 --> 0:38:50.160 No more than three total hours during the week. And 0:38:50.200 --> 0:38:52.040 by the way, there's also times you can play, so 0:38:52.080 --> 0:38:55.560 you have to play, you can't play past a certain time. 0:38:55.880 --> 0:38:57.920 This is weird. It doesn't really make sense what they 0:38:58.080 --> 0:39:00.200 mentioned here in the Wall Street journale. They say they 0:39:00.239 --> 0:39:02.400 will only be permitted to play between eight pm and 0:39:02.520 --> 0:39:06.480 nine pm, So eight pm at night on Friday night 0:39:06.560 --> 0:39:08.040 to nine pm the next day. I don't know if 0:39:08.080 --> 0:39:11.719 that makes sense, but so yeah, they also have to 0:39:11.800 --> 0:39:16.200 register these online video games with an anti addiction system, 0:39:16.760 --> 0:39:19.120 and then users have to register using their real names 0:39:19.160 --> 0:39:22.439 and government issued IDs. Now this is China, so yeah, 0:39:22.480 --> 0:39:24.239 they have a little bit more of a hold over 0:39:24.280 --> 0:39:27.399 the people there that you know, they can't really it's 0:39:27.400 --> 0:39:29.399 a whole different world over there. Let's put it that way. 0:39:29.680 --> 0:39:32.719 So these rules are in effect. I'm sure there are 0:39:32.800 --> 0:39:37.040 ways of circumventing these rules, but this, this is what 0:39:37.120 --> 0:39:40.319 the baseline is. Now. I'm not advocating for these rules 0:39:40.320 --> 0:39:43.359 in the US. I don't. I don't think that, you know, 0:39:43.400 --> 0:39:45.279 we need to be this drastic, but I think that 0:39:45.760 --> 0:39:47.520 it is a challenge, and I don't know what the 0:39:47.560 --> 0:39:50.919 answer is. I think that helping kids limit definitely, putting 0:39:50.960 --> 0:39:54.960 those limits on the devices really helps. You know. We 0:39:55.040 --> 0:39:57.840 use screen time and there's a device called Circle that 0:39:57.880 --> 0:40:00.440 we've used in the past which is really good. And 0:40:00.480 --> 0:40:03.240 then when it comes to YouTube, I block it throughout 0:40:03.239 --> 0:40:06.480 the week and then on Friday I unlock it all right, 0:40:06.560 --> 0:40:09.439 unblock it at a network level, so in on my router, 0:40:09.560 --> 0:40:12.000 on my euro I just say, you know, block YouTube 0:40:12.040 --> 0:40:14.719 all week, and then on the weekends it's unblocked. Now, 0:40:14.880 --> 0:40:17.719 the pain about doing that is that it affects me. 0:40:18.320 --> 0:40:20.600 So I can't look up a YouTube video on my 0:40:20.719 --> 0:40:23.759 Google homes during the week, and I can't just sit 0:40:23.880 --> 0:40:25.480 on the couch. I can't tell you how many times 0:40:25.520 --> 0:40:27.239 I've sat on the couch and said, oh, let me 0:40:27.239 --> 0:40:30.960 look at my YouTube subscriptions and ah, sorry, can't access 0:40:31.000 --> 0:40:34.720 the network. And it's like, uh all because of my kids, 0:40:34.719 --> 0:40:38.359 Like I don't get to enjoy my YouTube that I 0:40:38.400 --> 0:40:40.120 want to watch, and then I got to go into 0:40:40.120 --> 0:40:41.919 the app and I gotta unlock it, and I gotta 0:40:41.960 --> 0:40:43.680 do this and that, and it's a whole big thing. 0:40:44.239 --> 0:40:47.319 And the best part is that when my kid, he 0:40:47.560 --> 0:40:50.360 checks every single day to see if YouTube just happens 0:40:50.400 --> 0:40:52.680 to be unlocked. So if I unlock it to watch 0:40:52.680 --> 0:40:54.759 something in the afternoon and I forget to relock it, 0:40:55.080 --> 0:40:57.120 he'll he'll find it immediately when he gets home from 0:40:57.160 --> 0:40:59.279 school and he's like, oh, I'm watching YouTube because it 0:40:59.320 --> 0:41:01.200 was unlocked. I'm like, how'd you figure that out? He's like, oh, 0:41:01.239 --> 0:41:04.520 I just check every day. So these kids are there. 0:41:04.680 --> 0:41:08.000 There's something else. Now. When I was a kid, yes, 0:41:08.120 --> 0:41:12.120 I got I got the Nintendo thumb from playing RC 0:41:12.280 --> 0:41:14.680 pro Am so much and Zelda and all these different 0:41:14.760 --> 0:41:18.400 games and Super Mario Brothers. But there was a limit 0:41:18.480 --> 0:41:21.640 to this, like it wasn't online, your friends weren't always online. 0:41:21.760 --> 0:41:24.680 These games are much stickier these days because you go 0:41:24.719 --> 0:41:27.640 online and some of your close friends might be playing 0:41:27.640 --> 0:41:30.200 at that point, or some of your friends that you've 0:41:30.200 --> 0:41:33.720 made online are playing, and guess what, there's always someone playing, 0:41:34.120 --> 0:41:36.720 and so there's always an excuse for my kids. Oh well, 0:41:37.360 --> 0:41:40.840 Jay Dog seventy four twenty nine is on and I'm like, 0:41:40.880 --> 0:41:44.359 who's that? Like one of my friends on Minecraft. So 0:41:45.120 --> 0:41:47.200 it's just an uphill battle for parents. But I think 0:41:47.239 --> 0:41:51.040 that putting some of these things in place is a 0:41:51.080 --> 0:41:53.640 good thing for parents to do because I think it 0:41:53.719 --> 0:42:00.400 really really helps. All right, let's get to another question. 0:42:02.480 --> 0:42:04.160 Felix says, Hey, Rich, I wanted to see if you 0:42:04.160 --> 0:42:06.640 can help me with a suggestion or recommend a good 0:42:06.640 --> 0:42:08.960 Wi Fi router. I just recently bumped up my internet 0:42:09.040 --> 0:42:12.279 speed on AT and T to one thousand megabits per 0:42:12.360 --> 0:42:14.920 second one gig. I'm using the Wi Fi modum that 0:42:15.000 --> 0:42:18.160 AIGHT and T gives you. If I have it hardwired 0:42:18.200 --> 0:42:20.279 to my computer, I get about eight to nine hundred down, 0:42:20.440 --> 0:42:23.800 But on Wi Fi get one twenty, I unplug it, 0:42:23.880 --> 0:42:25.359 reset it, I still get the same. So what would 0:42:25.400 --> 0:42:28.279 you recommend? Would you suggest a Wi Fi router to 0:42:28.320 --> 0:42:32.440 get faster wireless speeds? Thank you, Felix. So, Felix, a 0:42:32.440 --> 0:42:38.520 couple things. Number one, AT and T just introduced an extender, 0:42:39.120 --> 0:42:42.239 and so I would get that if I were you, 0:42:43.560 --> 0:42:47.080 And let's see if I can find it. Uh, where 0:42:47.200 --> 0:42:50.839 is it? Oh gosh, oh, here we go. Let's see 0:42:50.840 --> 0:42:54.000 what it's called. It is called the AT and T 0:42:54.080 --> 0:42:58.600 Wi Fi six Gateway and Extender. So I this just 0:42:58.680 --> 0:43:02.520 launched on August fourth, and so what I would do 0:43:02.840 --> 0:43:04.880 is I would call AT and T and I would 0:43:04.920 --> 0:43:09.080 ask them to give you this AT and T Wi 0:43:09.080 --> 0:43:12.560 Fi six Gateway and Extender. And that's the easiest solution 0:43:12.640 --> 0:43:15.920 because AT and T already gives you your Internet and 0:43:15.960 --> 0:43:19.720 this is the proper term, is the BGW three twenty 0:43:20.280 --> 0:43:22.600 and so I think that's the easiest way to do 0:43:22.680 --> 0:43:27.399 it because that way, you are going through AT and T. 0:43:28.040 --> 0:43:30.560 They can't give any gripes about you know, oh we 0:43:30.600 --> 0:43:33.120 can't help you because you're not using our router. And 0:43:33.200 --> 0:43:36.000 so it's a lot easier. Now. I don't know how 0:43:36.080 --> 0:43:40.000 much this costs, but the Wi Fi six Gateway lets 0:43:40.040 --> 0:43:42.480 you connect more more devices on the network, gives you 0:43:42.520 --> 0:43:46.759 better coverage. It's triband and Wi Fi six enabled, and 0:43:46.800 --> 0:43:49.720 it says you get seventy five percent improved download speeds 0:43:49.760 --> 0:43:52.040 and ninety percent when you're using a Wi Fi six 0:43:52.160 --> 0:43:56.520 enabled devices plus connectivity in your entire home. Wi Fi 0:43:56.520 --> 0:43:59.520 six devices include the iPhone eleven and the S ten, 0:43:59.560 --> 0:44:03.880 which means it'll also include devices past that as well. 0:44:04.360 --> 0:44:08.480 The air Ties Wi Fi six Extender seamlessly extend. It 0:44:08.520 --> 0:44:11.040 connects you with your Wi Fi gateway to create a 0:44:11.160 --> 0:44:14.560 mesh network throughout your house. So I would do that. 0:44:14.560 --> 0:44:16.600 That would be my solution. If you don't want to 0:44:16.640 --> 0:44:19.120 go with AT and T solution, then I would go 0:44:19.200 --> 0:44:22.640 with Eero e e R Eero Pro is going to 0:44:22.719 --> 0:44:25.920 give you that faster speed. That's what I have. I 0:44:25.960 --> 0:44:28.560 do not get my one gig speed around my house. 0:44:28.960 --> 0:44:32.280 I get closer to five hundred, which is about half 0:44:32.400 --> 0:44:35.439 of what I would ideally be getting. But that's kind 0:44:35.520 --> 0:44:37.920 of what the reality is with Wi Fi. You get 0:44:38.000 --> 0:44:39.960 kind of half of what you're paying for around the house. 0:44:40.560 --> 0:44:43.480 So I think that the AT and T solution is 0:44:43.560 --> 0:44:47.360 much simpler, much easier, and just more straightforward. And I 0:44:47.400 --> 0:44:50.919 don't know how much they I don't know how much 0:44:50.960 --> 0:44:54.759 they charge for that, but that's my indication of what 0:44:54.800 --> 0:44:56.880 I think you should do because it's just the easiest. 0:44:57.200 --> 0:44:59.840 I also did a story on something called Villo vil 0:45:00.040 --> 0:45:03.880 Oh and it's a mesh network system for just sixty bucks. 0:45:04.400 --> 0:45:07.680 Now that does not go up to the full speed. 0:45:07.719 --> 0:45:11.319 You're not gonna get the full wired speed or the 0:45:11.360 --> 0:45:16.440 full You're not gonna get the full one gigabit throughout 0:45:16.480 --> 0:45:20.040 your house. This is probably gonna be closer to a 0:45:20.120 --> 0:45:23.680 five hundred solution. So if you want the full, I 0:45:23.680 --> 0:45:25.520 would go with what AT and T is offering you. 0:45:27.440 --> 0:45:31.239 All right, let's talk about Facebook and Instagram. You might 0:45:31.280 --> 0:45:33.440 get a notification on your Instagram that they need to 0:45:33.480 --> 0:45:35.879 know your data birth. Why are they doing this, Well, 0:45:35.920 --> 0:45:39.719 they're trying to weed out situations and posts and advertising 0:45:39.719 --> 0:45:42.839 that might not be appropriate for people under eighteen. Now, 0:45:42.960 --> 0:45:45.399 a lot of people have already given their data birth 0:45:45.440 --> 0:45:50.240 to fate Instagram, and so it's probably not really even 0:45:50.400 --> 0:45:53.880 a thing for me. I looked in my settings and 0:45:53.960 --> 0:45:58.680 sure enough, my Instagram already had my data birth from Facebook, 0:45:59.080 --> 0:46:02.600 and so they share that with Facebook shares that data 0:46:02.640 --> 0:46:05.320 with Instagram. So if you want to check to see 0:46:05.840 --> 0:46:09.239 if your data birth is already on your Instagram, just 0:46:09.280 --> 0:46:13.720 go to Instagram, then Settings, then account, then personal information again, 0:46:13.840 --> 0:46:17.640 Instagram Settings, Account, personal Information, and does it say data 0:46:17.680 --> 0:46:19.480 birth if it's already there you're not going to get 0:46:19.480 --> 0:46:22.600 this prompt. But what I thought was interesting about this 0:46:22.800 --> 0:46:25.320 prompt is not only are they going to let users 0:46:25.360 --> 0:46:28.239 kind of dismiss it a couple of times before it's required, 0:46:28.840 --> 0:46:31.680 they can tell if you're lying when you answer this 0:46:31.800 --> 0:46:36.000 question because they're using artificial intelligence, so they're looking at 0:46:36.160 --> 0:46:40.000 the posts that you have made or when people comment 0:46:40.080 --> 0:46:43.640 happy birthday, and that's just one signal they're using. And 0:46:43.719 --> 0:46:46.200 so when you do this, they will and you say, 0:46:46.280 --> 0:46:48.440 let's say you say you're eighteen on this thing, or 0:46:48.560 --> 0:46:50.839 let's say you're let's say you're a thirteen year old 0:46:50.840 --> 0:46:53.680 and you say you're eighteen, and Facebook's like, hmmm, I 0:46:53.760 --> 0:46:55.400 don't know, because a lot of people are wishing you 0:46:55.440 --> 0:46:58.640 a happy seventeenth birthday last year so or sorry, a 0:46:58.680 --> 0:47:02.680 happy fourteen birthday, whatever, happy thirteenth. You know what I'm saying. 0:47:03.920 --> 0:47:06.640 Their data will go through and then if you lie, 0:47:07.280 --> 0:47:10.640 they will say, I don't know, we don't think that 0:47:10.760 --> 0:47:13.399 you're actually telling the truth. So we are actually going 0:47:13.440 --> 0:47:16.719 to request for you to verify your age in a 0:47:16.719 --> 0:47:19.520 different way, which they didn't say how, but you know 0:47:19.560 --> 0:47:22.600 that could be uploading an ID or whatever. So Facebook's 0:47:22.600 --> 0:47:24.560 getting real serious about this stuff, and I think we're 0:47:24.560 --> 0:47:27.440 seeing these social media companies get more and more serious 0:47:27.440 --> 0:47:30.880 about protecting users and putting in safeguards and getting a 0:47:30.920 --> 0:47:33.800 little just tightening things up just a little bit because 0:47:34.200 --> 0:47:37.640 there is always that threat of government regulation, and so 0:47:37.719 --> 0:47:40.440 far these companies have really had a lot of leeway 0:47:40.480 --> 0:47:43.279 in what they do and they want to do things. 0:47:43.360 --> 0:47:45.279 It's kind of like I think I've talked about this before. 0:47:45.280 --> 0:47:48.840 It's kind of like the movie the movie rating system 0:47:49.160 --> 0:47:52.560 that is voluntary from the movie company. So the companies 0:47:52.560 --> 0:47:55.719 that make movies tell us what the rating of the 0:47:55.760 --> 0:47:59.520 movie is, who it's appropriate for, and you know, that's 0:47:59.760 --> 0:48:01.760 that's that's an interesting place to be, and of course 0:48:01.800 --> 0:48:05.560 it's an advantageous place to be because they keep pushing 0:48:05.560 --> 0:48:08.759 the envelope. Right. A PG thirteen movie is just a 0:48:08.760 --> 0:48:11.640 little racier than a PG thirteen movie from the nineties 0:48:11.719 --> 0:48:14.439 or the eighties, or if they even had. I forget 0:48:14.480 --> 0:48:17.239 what the first movie was that was PG thirteen. I 0:48:17.239 --> 0:48:18.920 think it was. My friend told me it was like 0:48:18.920 --> 0:48:21.320 Indiana Jones or something. I don't know. Don't quote me 0:48:21.360 --> 0:48:25.319 on that one, but anyway, so that's what's happening with 0:48:25.360 --> 0:48:28.080 the Happy birthday stuff and the Facebook posts. They don't 0:48:28.080 --> 0:48:29.560 care about your birthday because they want to wish you 0:48:29.600 --> 0:48:32.080 a happy birthday. They care because a they want to 0:48:32.080 --> 0:48:34.480 be able to target more ads towards you, but they 0:48:34.480 --> 0:48:37.920 want to be able to target less appropriate things or 0:48:38.120 --> 0:48:41.480 I guess things that are not appropriate towards miners. They 0:48:41.480 --> 0:48:43.239 want to make sure that they're trying to keep that 0:48:43.280 --> 0:48:46.000 stuff away from them as much as possible. There's another 0:48:46.040 --> 0:48:49.520 place you might see this happy birth or this birthday 0:48:49.719 --> 0:48:52.080 question is when you look at a post that might 0:48:52.120 --> 0:48:54.640 be sensitive or graphic. So when you look at one 0:48:54.680 --> 0:48:58.279 of these posts, they may ask you, hey, before you 0:48:58.280 --> 0:49:01.239 look at this post, let's just verify your birthday real quick. 0:49:01.320 --> 0:49:04.360 And again, if you lie, they'll say, hmmm, that's interesting 0:49:04.440 --> 0:49:07.440 because our data tells us that you're not this age. 0:49:07.800 --> 0:49:10.799 And again, I just think it's really fascinating that Facebook 0:49:10.840 --> 0:49:14.280 and Instagram are using artificial intelligence to kind of figure 0:49:14.280 --> 0:49:17.400 out how old we are, and most of us just 0:49:17.440 --> 0:49:20.719 hand over this information by ourselves. But the reality is 0:49:21.160 --> 0:49:24.080 if they're using AI to do this, just think of 0:49:24.360 --> 0:49:26.919 all the different things they're using AI for. It does 0:49:27.000 --> 0:49:31.600 not end at this. There is so much stuff that 0:49:31.640 --> 0:49:34.080 they are that they are using AI for. It's just 0:49:34.160 --> 0:49:40.279 it's pretty pretty unbelievable, just amazing actually and also kind 0:49:40.280 --> 0:49:44.719 of scary. All right, AJ says, hey, Rich, what are 0:49:44.719 --> 0:49:48.600 your recommendations to back up a MacBook Pro computer wirelessly? 0:49:48.680 --> 0:49:51.600 I've been using Western Digital MyCloud. It's not stable. I 0:49:51.600 --> 0:49:55.480 appreciate your content and enjoy your podcast, thanks aj. Aj. 0:49:55.680 --> 0:49:57.960 Here's what I would do with that Western Digital MyCloud. 0:49:58.680 --> 0:50:02.120 I would format that drive and I would set it 0:50:02.200 --> 0:50:05.400 up as a time machine. And time machine has the 0:50:05.440 --> 0:50:09.400 ability to link up wirelessly. That my cloud should have 0:50:09.520 --> 0:50:12.960 a Wi Fi network built in. It should give you 0:50:13.080 --> 0:50:16.960 access to that time machine drive through your Mac. So 0:50:17.960 --> 0:50:20.920 those steps once again, make sure that whatever's on your 0:50:20.920 --> 0:50:24.080 computer is already backed up somewhere because you're gonna erase 0:50:24.120 --> 0:50:28.160 this MyCloud. Then I would format the MyCloud on your 0:50:28.200 --> 0:50:33.360 Windows computer as a as a drive with a time machine, 0:50:34.000 --> 0:50:35.600 you know, open up time machine, it says, hey, do 0:50:35.600 --> 0:50:37.319 you want to use this drive as a time machine drive, 0:50:38.239 --> 0:50:41.760 and then you know, connect that that my my cloud 0:50:41.840 --> 0:50:46.960 drive to your computer wirelessly and it will just it 0:50:47.000 --> 0:50:50.400 will just back up to that that using time Machine. 0:50:50.400 --> 0:50:53.279 I know I'm totally screwing this up, but The time 0:50:53.320 --> 0:50:56.120 Machine is a feature on the Mac and it can 0:50:56.120 --> 0:50:58.920 be done by plugging in an external hard drive, or 0:50:59.000 --> 0:51:01.360 it can also be done wirelessly. As long as you 0:51:01.360 --> 0:51:04.000 set up a drive as a time Machine drive, once 0:51:04.120 --> 0:51:06.919 the Mac sees that drive on the network, it will 0:51:06.920 --> 0:51:10.759 start wirelessly backing things up to that drive. So the 0:51:10.800 --> 0:51:14.320 trick here is to make sure that the MyCloud drive 0:51:14.880 --> 0:51:17.560 has a time Machine set up on it, which will 0:51:17.560 --> 0:51:20.400 require you doing that through your Mac and then also 0:51:20.719 --> 0:51:24.320 being on your network. And I believe that's the software 0:51:24.360 --> 0:51:28.600 through the Western Digital MyCloud software. You're not using their 0:51:28.640 --> 0:51:32.359 software to actually back up, but you are using their 0:51:32.400 --> 0:51:34.840 software to just kind of get this drive on the 0:51:34.840 --> 0:51:37.560 wireless network, if that makes sense. So I've done this 0:51:37.640 --> 0:51:41.240 in the past. It's simple, it's pretty painless, and anytime 0:51:41.280 --> 0:51:44.120 you open up your MacBook computer it will start syncing 0:51:44.239 --> 0:51:48.880 to the wireless time Machine. I've stopped using time Machine 0:51:48.880 --> 0:51:51.759 these days because quite honestly, all my stuff is in 0:51:51.800 --> 0:51:54.200 the cloud and so I don't really need a backup 0:51:54.239 --> 0:51:56.840 of anything on my computer. In fact, if my computer 0:51:56.880 --> 0:51:59.640 hard drive ever crashes, I see it as a blessing 0:51:59.719 --> 0:52:02.520 into because I get to set my computer up fresh 0:52:02.640 --> 0:52:05.040 and start over. Again, knock on wood. I hope that 0:52:05.040 --> 0:52:07.080 doesn't happen. I don't really want that to happen, but 0:52:07.560 --> 0:52:11.160 that's the way I see it, and so yeah, that's 0:52:11.320 --> 0:52:13.760 that's my thing. All right. Let's do one more question 0:52:13.840 --> 0:52:17.840 here before we go. Marty says, Hey, Rich, can you 0:52:17.880 --> 0:52:20.600 recommend an authenticator app for seniors? It has to be 0:52:20.680 --> 0:52:23.600 user friendly and not complicated. Thank you, Marty, sent from 0:52:23.600 --> 0:52:26.640 my iPhone. So there's a couple authenticator apps that I 0:52:26.680 --> 0:52:31.759 would recommend. I Marty number one. I love that you 0:52:31.800 --> 0:52:36.160 are looking into an authenticator app because two factor authentication 0:52:36.440 --> 0:52:40.360 is the most important thing you can enable on any 0:52:40.440 --> 0:52:43.319 and all of your accounts that support it. What two 0:52:43.360 --> 0:52:47.200 factor authentication is is this, you have a password on 0:52:47.239 --> 0:52:50.760 your account. That password is probably easily hackable by a hacker. 0:52:51.080 --> 0:52:53.000 They can get into your account in a million different 0:52:53.000 --> 0:52:55.480 ways if you just have a password, especially if you're 0:52:55.560 --> 0:52:58.480 using that password everywhere. But when you bring an authentication 0:52:58.640 --> 0:53:02.359 app into the mix, or two factor authentication, even if 0:53:02.400 --> 0:53:07.080 a hacker logs into your account, what happens is it says, okay, 0:53:07.120 --> 0:53:10.560 you logged in. That's cool. Now what's the the two 0:53:10.560 --> 0:53:14.400 factor authentication number? We just texted to you or that's 0:53:14.400 --> 0:53:17.760 displayed on your app, and the hacker goes ah, foiled again, 0:53:19.480 --> 0:53:21.200 and then they pull off their face like they do 0:53:21.239 --> 0:53:23.239 in Scooby Do at the end and they go, oh, 0:53:23.440 --> 0:53:28.040 get you kids. And so you foil them because chances 0:53:28.080 --> 0:53:31.200 are they don't have access to both your password and 0:53:31.400 --> 0:53:34.200 your smartphone, and they can unlock your smartphone and they 0:53:34.239 --> 0:53:37.040 can get the text and they can type in this 0:53:37.160 --> 0:53:41.960 secondary code. Now, SMS works, but it's not as good 0:53:42.400 --> 0:53:47.040 because SMS can be hacked as well, it can be redirected. 0:53:47.880 --> 0:53:49.879 You know, it's just not as good. But these authentication 0:53:49.920 --> 0:53:51.920 apps are pretty good because they live on your phone, 0:53:52.520 --> 0:53:55.600 they're linked up to the website, and they just generate 0:53:55.640 --> 0:53:58.759 a different code every thirty seconds or so. And so 0:53:58.840 --> 0:54:01.839 what you do is you go into something like let's 0:54:01.840 --> 0:54:05.920 say Facebook, you set up two factor authentication, and you 0:54:05.960 --> 0:54:08.080 link it up to this little app, usually by scanning 0:54:08.080 --> 0:54:10.560 a QR code from the app on your phone screen, 0:54:11.000 --> 0:54:12.960 and then it says, okay, here's your Facebook code, and 0:54:13.000 --> 0:54:15.360 it changes every thirty seconds, and when you go to 0:54:15.400 --> 0:54:17.839 log into Facebook, you'll log in with your password, but 0:54:17.840 --> 0:54:19.840 then it says, okay, now can you please enter the 0:54:19.840 --> 0:54:23.719 code from your authenticator app, and chances are only you 0:54:23.880 --> 0:54:26.879 have access to that authentication app. And so you open 0:54:26.960 --> 0:54:29.120 the authentication app on your phone, you look at the 0:54:29.120 --> 0:54:31.680 code and you type it in and Facebook says, okay, 0:54:32.280 --> 0:54:34.719 you now typed in your password. You now typed in 0:54:34.760 --> 0:54:37.400 the authentication code, and we're going to grant you access 0:54:37.400 --> 0:54:40.359 to this account. And that is the most secure way 0:54:40.440 --> 0:54:43.440 I know of for getting into accounts. Now there might 0:54:43.480 --> 0:54:46.080 be some even more secure ways, but they're much more complicated, 0:54:46.160 --> 0:54:48.600 and for that reason, just use one of these apps. 0:54:48.600 --> 0:54:53.360 So the three that I like are called Authyauty, and 0:54:53.400 --> 0:54:57.520 then Google has one called Google Authenticator, and then Microsoft 0:54:57.600 --> 0:55:00.959 has one as well, and it's the same. They're they're 0:55:01.000 --> 0:55:05.279 all the same. They're basically all the same. Just pick 0:55:05.280 --> 0:55:07.200 one that you like. If you want to use Microsoft 0:55:07.239 --> 0:55:11.440 Mobile Phone Authenticator authenticator app that works. If you want 0:55:11.440 --> 0:55:16.040 to use the Google Authenticator that one works, or you 0:55:16.040 --> 0:55:18.600 can use Authie which is kind of a third party one. 0:55:19.000 --> 0:55:21.480 But either way, just just pick one of these and 0:55:21.560 --> 0:55:25.600 use it and that's it. Now. The caveat to this 0:55:25.719 --> 0:55:28.319 is you don't want to lose access to this authentication app, 0:55:28.360 --> 0:55:30.480 because if you do, it's kind of a pain. So 0:55:30.520 --> 0:55:34.480 when you set up this process of authentication two factor authentication. 0:55:35.040 --> 0:55:37.440 Each website is going to give you a list of 0:55:37.480 --> 0:55:40.560 backup codes. Keep those codes in a safe place, even 0:55:40.600 --> 0:55:41.960 if you have to print them out and put them 0:55:41.960 --> 0:55:45.320 in a file somewhere in your house. That I wouldn't 0:55:45.320 --> 0:55:47.920 recommend that, but that's you know, if you have to 0:55:47.960 --> 0:55:51.760 do that, do it. What I would recommend is copying 0:55:51.800 --> 0:55:56.759 and pasting those codes into your password management app, which 0:55:56.760 --> 0:55:59.600 I hope you're using as well. So those are the 0:55:59.640 --> 0:56:02.239 things that I would recommend. And you know, you got 0:56:02.239 --> 0:56:04.680 to secure these accounts. You got to just get these 0:56:04.719 --> 0:56:07.560 things secured because hackers are working twenty four to seven 0:56:08.080 --> 0:56:10.359 to get access to your accounts. And believe me, they 0:56:10.440 --> 0:56:13.680 are very very smart and they will just try anything 0:56:14.280 --> 0:56:15.759 to get access to your accounts. I don't know what 0:56:15.800 --> 0:56:18.200 they want access for. I mean, there's clearly an endgame 0:56:18.280 --> 0:56:20.320 that you know, they can do a lot of stuff 0:56:20.320 --> 0:56:22.880 with your personal data. But that's a whole nother conversation. 0:56:23.719 --> 0:56:25.920 That's going to do it for this episode of the show. 0:56:25.960 --> 0:56:27.719 If you would like to submit a question for me 0:56:27.760 --> 0:56:30.040 to answer, just go to my Facebook page Facebook dot 0:56:30.080 --> 0:56:33.080 com slash Rich on Tech, Hit the Big blue send 0:56:33.160 --> 0:56:35.879 email button. Also, I would love it if you would 0:56:35.920 --> 0:56:38.240 rate and review this podcast. It's been a while since 0:56:38.520 --> 0:56:41.560 you wrote a review, so please just go to the 0:56:42.160 --> 0:56:45.560 show on Apple Podcasts write a quick line about what 0:56:45.600 --> 0:56:47.600 you like about this show so that that can help 0:56:47.640 --> 0:56:50.919 other people know why they should listen. 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